Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-22

iOA0J 0hN AuihuOi VI OllcI ulbtIiCtp
are said to be in splendid shape, and,
altogether, the mining outlook is re-
ported as very promising.
The only thing of note in Nevada to
the passenger on q train are the great
numbers of sleek, aforementioned
cattle which, particularly at Lovelock
and along the Humboldt generally,
show that the cattle interests of the
State are still Of great magnitude.
These animals feed on bunch and wire
grasses, which make the sweetest beef
in the world. The greed of the cattle
men bids fair to overreach itse.f. They
have allowed their bands TO increase
so disproportionately to the pastura se
that these invaluable perennial grasses
are disappearing.
| Utah, also, is great grazing
country, and for hundreds of miles
north and south of the line of the
Central and Union Pacific there are
great cattle ranges. At Promontory |
ran across MIR. John M. Taylor, form
erly Superintendent of Schools in San
Francisco, who has become thorough
cowboy. He is interested, with
Captain Buford, of Kentucky, and
other gentlemen, in a great stock
range. They have had marked sue
cess in their business, having range
that will pasture sixty thousand
head OF cattle; and now, in the sec
ond year, they have already thirty
thousand, but they complain that
the prices are unsatisfactory. AS
they are able to hold on for better
times they are doing so, in the hope,
| if not the belief, that higher prices are
ahead. For the same reason the
stock men of Colorado, who are a
numerous class, with very expensive
plant, are in the dumps. Phil. Ar
mour, of Chicago, seems to have the
cattle men of the whole West and
Southwest by the hip, and they are
praying, with all the fervor ever
shown by devotee at his litany, for de-
liyerance and a better day. Verify,
we all have our troubles.
SUPERB RAILWAY SCENERY.
The country, after leaving Salt
Lake City, cannot be said to be very
interesting until Price cai1on is
reached. A small stream, which the
Mornons have dubbed the River Jor-
dan, the town OF Lehi, which is said to
contain ten thousand inhabitants, and
a number OF smelling works being the
principal matters OF note. But
Utah is better than she looks.
Back of Salt Lake City in
the mountains is the famous
Emma silver mine, which was used to
swindle confiding English sharehold-
ers, and which is now yielding hand
some dividends. The Ontario, which
has netted the Messrs. Haggin and
Hearst over eight million dollars, is
also only thirty-three miles from the
capital of Mormondom. There is no
limit to the mineral development of
Utah when the curse of Mormon re-
preston is once lifted from the land.
The agricultural capabilities of the
territory have been measurably de-
veloped and admit OF great things
Irrigation is practiced extensively and
the alfalfa fields ef Southern Califor-
mia align the rail way.
What interests the tourist more than
any hase of accomplished or possible
development in this section, however,
is the unrivalled scenery along the
line of the Denver and Rio Grand
Narrow Gauge road. Led up to by
Price canon, continued if not sur
passed in the Marshall Pass, it attains
a positive sublimity in the gorge of
the Arkansas. Nature has cut out a
passage way of inexpressible grandeur
between mountains of tremendous
magnitude. The cloud-capped towers
of the poets vision dwindle into insig-
nifcance beside the marvels which
awe the spectator as the screening
locomotive whirls him through cav
erns seemingly hewn in the
solid rock and which apparently have
no outlet. There are twenty places
in this magnificent gorge, where the
town absolutely seems to be running
into rock-ribbed mountain cul de sac,
and the impression is so real as to
daze the strongest head. The impetu-
out Arkansas river, breaking into foam
over thousand impediments, alone
assures the passengers that there must
be an exit. 1t is generally conceded
that the scenery aligning the Denver
and Rio Grande Railway is the finest
in the United States, and there are not
wanting many travelled people who say
that it is the finest in the world. As
an engineering feat the building of
this road extorts admiration. As a
monument of pluck, energy and per-
severance it deserves all eco milton.
l am glad to learn that the e, m mpany is
prosperous and meditates extension of
it's grand work.
DENVER.
Denver is a revelation to those who
have never seen the place. Its people
take great pride in their town, and
very justly SO. 1t is the very embodi-
ment of a modern, progressive Ameri-
can city. The Denverites claim pop
ulation of eighty thousand souls, and
an outsider, after thoroughly inspect
ing it, would be inclined to concede
them sixty thousand. 1t is undoubt-
edly the best built city of its size in
the United States. The Ia
Dor Opera House is the
most magnificent structure of the
kind in the country, far SURPRISING
any edifice devoted to amusement in
New York or any other Eastern city.
Its city hall would shame the great
ramshackle curio of San Francisco.
Its courthouse overtops any similar
edifice have ever seen. The society
men of Denver have nearly completed
a club house which is to cost $l0O, 900.
Its business edifices are as fine as those
of Chicago or San Francisco. The
State is building a capitol here which,
from all l hear, and from the way
these people do things, will equal any
thing of the sort in the United States.
Denver is built nearly altogether of
brick and stone. The private resi-
dences on Grant, Sherman and Lin
coin avenues would compare favorably
with those on Euclid avenue, Cleve-